Just for grins, go to http://www.rst-engr.com/weathervane/ and think
about making a 4x or 8x model of this thing. It is the
July/August/September Kitplanes project column device.

Hee hee! That's cool!

I *almost* bought a giant-scale P-51 Mustang wind-vane at Sun N Fun a year
or two ago. It was beautiful, about 6' long, all fiberglass, and very well
made.

Unfortunately, it was over a thousand bucks, and I have NO idea where I'd
mount it. The problem with a wind vane is that you need dramatically more
real estate for it, so that it can rotate. My frontage at the Inn (as you
may recall) is a thin (~18 foot) "island" of grass directly in front of two
of my three parking lots.

Obviously, having a big rotating thing out there is probably a bad idea, due
to proximity to the road and parked cars.

Which leaves an area of grass up near the tower, which maybe gives us a
circumference of 12 feet or so to play with. Trouble is, this is a
pedestrian walkway! I can just imagine what my insurance guy would say
about having a big rotating plane that might swing at any moment into the
walkway...

Ideally, we would put such a contraption over on the airport side of the
hotel, on the open land between us and the road that runs between us and the
field. Unfortunately, that's runway clear-space that we don't own -- and we
cannot put anything permanent in that space. (I just put a big ol' 12 foot
picnic table out there, and I'm waiting for someone to come tell me to
remove it...)

I'm afraid in the end we need something stationary, Jim. But thanks for
thinking of us!

(BTW: I have added an EAA windsock and a small aviation-theme rotating
windvane near the hotel entrance, just for fun!)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"